| Britannia Hospital (1982)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1982
Running Times: 111 mins 116
mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono
CREDITS PRODUCTION
Production Company: British Lion / EMI Films Ltd
Producers: Davina Belling, Clive Parsons
Associate Producer: John Comfort SCRIPT
Script: David Sherwin DIRECTION
Director: Lindsay Anderson
1st Assistant Director: Terry Needham, Roger Simons
Assistant Director: Michael Murray PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Mike Fash
Camera Operator: Mike Roberts
Clapper Loader: Simon Hume
Focus Puller: Mike Miller
Gaffer: Laurie Shane
Grip: Tony Cridlin
Stills: Frank Connor
Grip and Lighting Equipment: Lee Lighting Ltd EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Michael Ellis
Assistant Editors: Gordon Brown, Dennis McTaggart MUSIC
Music: Alan Price
Song Performed By: Gillian Knight (Rule Britannia)
Song Arranged and Conducted By: Derek Wadsworth (Rule Britannia) SOUND
Sound Mixer: Bruce White
Boom Operator: John Chandler
Sound Editor: Ian Fuller
Dubbing Mixer: Hugh Strain
Sound Effects Editor: Alan Pattillo MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Linda DeVetta
Make Up: Alan Boyle
Hair: Pat McDermott
Wardrobe Supervisor: Ian Hickinbotham
Wardrobe Master: Keith Morton
Wardrobe Consultant: Monica Howe SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Nick Maley, Marian Nicholson (uncredited) SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: George Gibbs
Special Effects: Richard Conway, Dave McCall
Titles: G.P.C. DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Norris Spencer
Set Decorator: Simon Wakefield
Property Master: John Leuenberger
Construction Manager: Roy Evans MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Valerie Booth
Unit Publicist: Catherine O'Brien LOCATIONS
Locations: Friern Barnet Hospital, Friern Barnet Road, London, England, UK
Location Manager: Bill Lang STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Joe Dunne
Stunts: Stuart St Paul CASTING
Casting: Patsy Pollock CAST
Leonard Rossiter (Vincent Potter)
Brian Pettifer (Biles)
John Moffatt (Greville Figg)
Fulton Mackay (Chief Superintendant Johns)
Vivian Pickles (Matron)
Barbara Hicks (Miss Tinker)
Graham Crowden (Professor Millar)
Jill Bennett (Dr MacMillan)
Peter Jeffrey (Sir Geoffrey)
Marsha Hunt (Nurse Amanda Persil)
Catherine Willmer (Dr Houston)
Mary MacLeod (Casualty Sister)
Joan Plowright (Phyllis Grimshaw)
Robin Askwith (Ben Keating)
Dave Atkins (Sharkey)
Malcolm McDowell (Mick Travis)
Mark Hamill (Red)
Frank Grimes (Sammy / voice of Genesis)
Peter Machin (Peter Mancini)
Marcus Powell (Sir Anthony Mount)
John Bett (Lady Felicity)
Gladys Crosbie (Queen Mother)
Rufus Collins (Odingu)
Ram John Holder, Jim Findlay (aides)
Pauline Melville (Clarissa)
Kevin Lloyd, Robert Pugh, Robbie Coltrane (pickets)
Dandy Nichols (Florrie)
Glen Williams (Whooley)
Brian Glover (painter)
Mike Grady (painter)
Tony Haygarth (Fraser)
Jagdish Kumar (Sen)
Patrick Durkin (Blodgett)
Paddy Joyce (Feeney)
Richard Griffiths (Cheerful Bernie)
Dave Hill (Jeff)
Charmian May (Miss Diamond)
Valentine Dyall (Mr Rochester)
Roland Culver (General Wetherby)
Betty Marsden (Hermione)
Adele Strong (old lady)
Ted Burnett (taxi driver)
Gabrielle Lloyd, Barbara Flynn (private nurses)
Val Pringle (President Ngami)
Robert Lee (Mr Banzai)
Errol Shaker (Captain Mbwami)
Alan Penn (padre)
Liz Smith (Maisie)
Robin Davies (Adrian)
Gordon John Sinclair (real name: John Gordon Sinclair) (Gregory)
Bob Hornery (BBC cameraman)
Paul McCleary (assistant)
Paul Kember (sound recordist)
Jane Stonehouse (PA)
Patricia Healey (Intensive Care Sister)
Rosemary Martin (Casualty Nurse)
Robert Owen (ambulanceman)
Ellis Dale (man in wheelchair)
Maggie Ollerenshaw (Miss Rowntree)
Elizabeth Bennett (nurse / demonstrator)
Patsy Byrne, Brenda Cavendish (nurses)
David Daker, Edward Peel (guest workmen)
Alan Bates (Macready)
Arthur Lowe (guest patient)
T.P. McKenna, Michael Medwin, Edward Hibbert, Peter Holmes, Salmaan Peer (real name: Salmaan Peerzada) (theatre surgeons)
Janette Foggo, Cora Kinnaird (theatre nurses)
Joshua Bancel, Burt Caesar, Joe Cameron-Brown, Ginnette Clarke, Paul Cooper, Jo Crawford, Ronnie Cush, Derek Hollis, Di Langford, Roy Macready, Roger Martin, Verity Anne Meldrum, Marsha Miller, Yasmin Pettigrew, Martin Ransley, George Savvides, James Stephens, David Telfer, Helen Webb, Major Wiley, Eilian Wynn (demonstrators) PLOT SUMMARY TV reporter Mick Travis leads his crew into the ailing Britannia Hospital to make a documentary on the day of a Royal visit. A new wing is to be opened where bizarre scientific experiments are being practices by a team led by Professor Millar. But while the Professor creates an artificial human in the new wing and the administrators prepare for the Queen's visit, the staff preparing to go on strike and a horde of demonstrators have gathered outside to protest the presence of an African dictator with cannibalistic tendencies... AVAILABILITY UK
Video Distributor: Thorn-EMI Star Selection USA
Theatrical Release: United Artists Classics
Video Distributor: Home Box Office Home Video CENSORSHIP HISTORY Finland
Rating: K-16 Sweden
Rating: 15 USA
Rating: R AWARDS 1982
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Palm (Lindsay Anderson) - nominated 1983
Fantasporto
Audience Jury Award (Lindsay Anderson) - winner
International Fantasy Film Award: Best Film (Lindsay Anderson) - nominated TIMELINE
1982
May
27: UK - theatrical release
September
24: Sweden - theatrical release
1983
February
Day Unknown: Portugal - shown at the Fantasporto Film Festival
August
26: Finland - theatrical release
1984
June
15: West Germany - theatrical release ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Britannia Hospital - juhlapäivä - Finnish
title
Brittiska sjukan - Swedish title
Szpital Britannia - Polish title
LINKS SEQUEL TO
If.... (1968)
O Lucky Man! (1973) REFERENCES MAGAZINES Video the Magazine January 1985 p.22 (UK)
review KEYWORDS
hospitals; human experiments; sequels; trade unions;
journalists; tv reporters; royalty; queens; demonstrators; cannibalism;
dictators; satire; politics
|
